Photographer's 'Bill Brandt' stamp on verso. Titled in pencil on verso. Brandt's nudes of the late 1940s tend to show the figure in a domestic setting. The use of a...
Photographer's "Bill Brandt" stamp on verso. Titled in pencil on verso.
Brandt's nudes of the late 1940s tend to show the figure in a domestic setting. The use of a police camera led to distorted views that elongated the model's limbs and allowed an extraordinary depth of field.
Copyright The Bill Brandt Archive, London / Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York / Zürich. 2018
The Estate of Bill Brandt Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Literature
Brandt Nudes. A New Perspective (with a commentary by Mark Haworth-Booth), 2004 (illustrated full page p.120) Bill Jay and Nigel Warburton, Brandt: The Photography of Bill Brandt, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1999 (illustrated full page p.259) Bill Brandt. Perspective of Nudes (with a preface by Lawrence Durrell and an introduction by Chapman Mortimer), 1961 (illustrated full page plate 16).